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Posted: Sep. 06 2004,21:12 QUOTE

I installed DSL tobday on a P166 with 24 MB Ram, and it works just great! It's much more responsive than win95 on this machine . Under windows, while playing mp3 or ogg the machine is swapping and sometimes the sounds hiccups and skips... under DSL running XMMS the CPU remains under 40% and the memory free 11 MB! Wooohoo! You can surf the web while listening music on such a beast, isn't it WONDERFUL?

Now here are a few little bugs I found (they're easy to correct fortunately):

1) portmap doesn't run at boot. You can't mount an NFS share, you have to first start portmap by hand. I started it, and it works fine, even while running in LiveCD mode on my dinosaur. There is no reason not to start it as default (if it works on my machine it will on anyone's else), please add it :)

2) the /etc/group file is filled with "knoppix" everywhere :) You'll have to replace "knoppix" by "dsl" in all groups like "audio", "cdrom",etc to be able to mount cdroms, listen music, etc as a simple user. Very easy to correct, too :)
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Posted: Sep. 07 2004,01:04 QUOTE

I would think that people who don't use NFS (most single PC home users) would rather have it turned off by default.  This way the default install will use less RAM.
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Posted: Sep. 07 2004,08:21 QUOTE

Quote (cbagger01 @ Sep. 06 2004,21:04)
This way the default install will use less RAM.

As I mentioned, It ran perfectly with as little as 24 MB RAM in liveCD mode... do you think that lots of people will really need it to run with LESS ram? :)
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Posted: Sep. 07 2004,11:07 QUOTE

It's just enought to let people know how to start browsing the network in a couple of click. the "keep it simple and lite" rule should always be followed, in my opinion.
Instead..if it's not already there, let's give people an easy tool to do this task.
(I don't knowif it's there I have no lan, right now):;):


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Posted: Sep. 07 2004,20:07 QUOTE

BTW I just played a bit with the "click and run" tool, and it's, waoh, impressive! Just great! Oh, and Opera run like a dog on my machine, but you'd have guess it... :)
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